Round Table - "Refugees and Access to Water: Challenges and Responses"

This summary report has been prepared by the Geneva Water Hub as an input paper for the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace. The report provides a summary of a one-day senior experts’ roundtable and a conference co-convened by the Geneva Water Hub, on 3 February 2017 in Geneva. The analysis, results and recommendations in this paper represent the opinion of the participants and are not necessarily representative of the position of any of the organizations.

Thanks to the presenters (Murray Burt – UNHCR, Antonio Torres Ortiz – IOM, Hakam Al Alami – Advisor to Prince El Hassan bin Talal, Susan Kilani – Jordan Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Dina Ionesco - IOM) for their inputs during the round table. Other experts from ICRC, IFRC, UNHCHR, UNICEF, UNEP and Action against Hunger have also significantly contributed to the Roundtable. Thanks to adelphi for editing work, thanks to all the participants for their valuable inputs. The final Roundtable Report is available below: